my new strut bar(added rear lower tie bar)
 

i have been thinking about this for a while lately and finally had the time this weekend to make it. total cost of materials was $37
i made the tie bar today. it will probobly get mounts added later for a sway bar, i just dont have a sway bar right now

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as an added bonus, my lower tie bar
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How'd you make the strut flange? Thats whats slowing me down from making my own bars, no plasma/tourch :-\

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three pieces of 1" angle. i drilled a whole for the studs from the shocks at one end of 2 of the pieces and the cut 45 degree ends on the other side and on both sides of the last piece and then welded them together. i did it all with a band saw. you could do it with a hack saw but it would be a lot of cutting

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Nice work :y I really need to get on the ball and build one of those i think you just inspired me to copy you :D

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Thats sexy ass ---- right there!

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Nice work. What does the whole thing weigh?

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thats a good question. i will weigh it and see. it isnt much more than an ebay strut brace though. i was surprized how light it was when it was done
::EDIT::i weighed it and found that it is 8lbs. i was expecting more so i am pretty happy with it

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added in the rear lower tie bar that was made today. i will post pics tomorrow of the painted finished products

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here are the finished products and a closeup of the bracket that someone wanted

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Re: my new strut bar(added rear lower tie bar)
 

pretty cool ----, and it only cost 37 dollars

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paint it black to un-homo it

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good idea on the brackets
too bad i just bought one off my buddy

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blue is my favorite color and its my damn car. thats as ricey as i get

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nice.

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ricer :P

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nice fab

can you get a better picture of where the bottom of the X mounts?

thanks

-Luke

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i will get it tonight

http://george.loper.org/archives/200...%20ben%27s.jpg
UNCLE BEN'S FTW!!!!!

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...to match the fuel pump access cover. :P

good job on the bars!

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that blue is on quite a few parts. i am an airplane painter with a lot of free time at work and any color in the world at hand, so i paint a lot

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hopefully not the vents and speaker covers :'(
since your a painter... the trunk prepped and painted would look great in stock color.
(with the red and yellow wires hidden of course.)

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that is all in the works. i didnt want to weld in the trunk after it was painted. now that there will be no more welding in the trunk i am going to paint it black.

none of my interior pieces are painted blue. they are all factory black or grey

those wires go to a trunk opening solenoid and will be hidden very soon too

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I have been thinking of sub frames for a while.. we'll see what I come up with.

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hopefully there will be a front strut bar in this thread by the end of the weekend. i have a huge amount of ---- to do to the car this weekend and its like 158 degrees in fl so i dont know how much i will get done. luckily the car isnt a daily driver. it has already been in the garage for 3 months and it will be another 7 months before i have a license. when this car finally does see the road again it will be badass